Errola, Astobizkar

Errola - 909M

168M Prominence

43.08530, -1.38986

June 24, 2025

Astobizkar - 1499M

102M Prominence

43.03430, -1.29763

June 24, 2025

HRP Day 4 stats

1936M Ascent, 1288M Descent

31.94 KM

Day 4 started with a bit of a wait as I needed to go in to the gas station supermarket to pick up some more food supplies for the coming days. I then got going in mid morning and climbed the trail that took me up and past Col de Lepeder. A bit of route finding was necessary after I passed by some unfinished vacant homes. I soon regained an old road though, then made it up to the summit of Errola, which is yet another Basque rolling hill on my HRP route. This one is relatively un exciting like the rest, and the summit was covered in manure and bugs, so I didn't really hang around. After coming up the North West side of the mountain, I descended to the South East, where I met up with a paved road. The paved road continued on for many many kilometers, It then crossed the N-135 road, at a junction with some sort of a church. Soon after crossing the road, I met a French Man from Bordeaux and we started hiking together. I convinced him to make a slight deviation from the common route and take the extra 15 minutes to come tag Astobizkar with me. Astobizkar is the first peak over 1000M that I come near, and it feels good to start slowly gaining elevation and getting into bigger mountains. The summit itself was not very exciting, and very broad, but the sun was out and the views were very good this afternoon. Astobizkar translates to " the donkey's back". After tagging the summit we both decided to continue on and descent 500 meters to get to Refugio de Azpegui. The guy who I was hiking with planned to stay there overnight, and I thought I might join him, but after seeing the unmanned refuge I decided not to. Instead I continued along the GR12 through an interesting forest, then hiked across a field overlooking a lush green valley where I found a spot of land flat enough to set up camp.

Making my way to Errola

A funky farm building

Errola summit

Looking back at the summit of Errola

A strange summit marker on Astobizkar

Astobizkar summit

Astobizkar summit. I am pointing at Pic D'Orhy, the first 2000+ meter peak on the HRP

The incredibly beautiful camp spot for the night

HRP Day 4 route

Errola close up

Astobizkar close up